I've never seen it happen because even though there are shared incremental goals, the long term goals are pretty different.
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Replying to @wycats @csuwildcat
Even Milton Friedman favored a negative income tax to tackle poverty. Today's libertarianism morally and intellectually bankrupt.
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Replying to @AdamRackis @wycats
LOL "Adherence to non-violence and refusing to support threatening people w/ harm to force ideas on them, is morally bankrupt"
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Replying to @csuwildcat @wycats
You've defined being forced to pay taxes as violence. This re-definition has zero basis in American history, or even western civilization.
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Replying to @AdamRackis @wycats
No basis in American history? Like nearly all of the Framers opposing income tax and it not existing for the 1st 100yrs of American history?
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Replying to @csuwildcat @wycats
A distinction without significance. Constitution was explicitly amended to allow for income tax. Less regressive than consumption taxes
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Replying to @AdamRackis @wycats
Oh, so they passed a law to make the immoral act legal! Well then, I guess that settles it, because as we know, laws dictate mora...oh wait:pic.twitter.com/IR7cFmgZFg
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Replying to @csuwildcat @wycats
Jefferson Quotes are like Trump tweets: there's one for every occasionpic.twitter.com/PiN57kRTZh
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Replying to @AdamRackis @csuwildcat
The best quote is actually by libertarian hero Paine, who makes a natural law argument for social security.pic.twitter.com/KPXsf5x4wc
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And how to fund it? Death taxes of course! "The Monopoly of natural inheritance" "A just man will rejoice to see it abolished"pic.twitter.com/NTJ3Dgfj9R
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But look, this is not the point. Libertarians admit a certain amount of government force (to enforce property rights & contracts)
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Left libertarians (or peer progressives) think we need more than that. But both agree about the trajectory.
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